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Both of your examples remove things from the grave yard so you can't use them. The card I've built while clearing the grave yard at least gives a chance to use them again.
As easy to cast as possible. Which tri-colour definitely isn't. Relic of Progenitus would do nicely. (Huh, that's been reprinted at uncommon, but it was originally common.) Heck, Tormod's Crypt could be common. Charging three different colours of mana for graveyard hate is just weird.
"If there was a lot of graveyard effects in the set - more than Return to Ravnica which had the Golgari, perhaps as much as Innistrad or Odyssey - then it could be a relevant common - but at that point, making it tricolour makes it hard for most decks to use again..." ~ Alex
So it could be common "Tri-color cards are quite rare at common, and I'm not sure whether this effect is okay at common or not. It's not really about power level. I mean, even Elixir of Immortality is uncommon, and it's pretty simple."~ L2i0n0k7
Yes Elixir of Immortality is uncommon but it also gives you 5 life and puts the card itself back in your library.
Given that a heavy graveyard interactive set would need a simple graveyard hate at common I'm trying to figure out what a good cost would be.
We're saying that the effect isn't something that should appear at common, not that it's improperly costed.
What about costing it at
or something similar?
This is an effect that would normally not do anything on Limited, which makes it dubious as a common. If there was a lot of graveyard effects in the set - more than Return to Ravnica which had the Golgari, perhaps as much as Innistrad or Odyssey - then it could be a relevant common - but at that point, making it tricolour makes it hard for most decks to use again...
Tri-color cards are quite rare at common, and I'm not sure whether this effect is okay at common or not. It's not really about power level. I mean, even Elixir of Immortality is uncommon, and it's pretty simple.
Yeah it would fit better in Bant. And given the right setting is the cost changed enough to allow the drop to common?
Seems more like it would be Bant colors, though.
I... guess you could reprint the 4-mana instant Mnemonic Nexus as a 3-colour 3-mana sorcery, if a set had a significant 3-colour theme like Shards of Alara did.
Roughly equivalent to: 
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: Gain three life.
Yeah; ok, that probably costs 3.